Now Now of Refuge Worldwide // Feb 11 2022
Xela for first hour
Ziúr live from Frameworks Festival at Blitz Club Munich (Feb 4 2022)

Now Now on Refuge Worldwide w/ Xela & Ziúr

from the forthcoming cassette "Toward Zero Death" by Karl Raymar

A sentient chill passes through and awakens a resting body in the cathedral. Faintly heard in its wake are repurposed tape-looped fragments of commercial Halloween kitsch that excavate earliest memories of the season. The sound is eventually lent an atemporal quality by an overlaying of chorused strings, occasional voice, chilly electronic tones, possible magnetic tape EVP. Karl Raymar brings you this personal soundtrack of the season where, as years pass, we more deeply contemplate and celebrate the shift of natural cycles, acknowledge that Death is inevitable but also part of the process in which new things grow; where, with joyful and serious intent, we pay tribute to those we were fortunate to know in the brief window of our lives, an understanding of impermanence to deepen our appreciation of the present moment. Time collapses in the glow of static, leaves redden and decay, souls march through the woods, we light a candle and ring a bell.

Karl Raymar - First Day of Fall

NICK KLEIN (@nick-klein) is a musical millipede crawling across an array of genres. He pulls the strings behind Psychic Liberation (@psychicliberation) and performs his own work that knows no bound form. Within this mix he performs a meditative selection of sounds, melting instrumental strums into foggy hymns. Tune in!

Image courtesy of NICK KLEIN
Lay out by Oliva Rawlings

Valley Radio 097 - NICK KLEIN

"Un mix pour réveiller le versant sombre de la bête, fait de morceaux déroutants, de voix satyriques, d’ambiances sonores crissantes, construit tout en tension.
Une invitation à emprunter les courbes dangereuses, à creuser des entailles incicatrisables, à célébrer la dégénérescence, à exhaler ses passions noires."

Gargantuan Grief - the end is known [DAWN]
Burnt Offerings - Extraction [HIDE H-4]
Tiamacr-p-l-n-23cut
Overlook - Soft Focus Barking remix [brokntoys]
Aagentah - Catalyst [YUKU]
Zohar - Warped
Tonto - Ritual [Cong Burn]
Acaptcha - Breath [Gop Tun]
RXEX - Shadow Palace [General Merchant]
Kamikaze Space Programme - Sparks [Osiris Music]
Fixpoint - Philosophical Zombies [Geometric Corruption]
44 - Mausoleum [Dyonisan Mysteries]
Serge Geyzel - No matter how it starts [Brokntoys]
Halba - Ask me now that I’m dying [Borders of known]
opal beau - Sleeping with the windows open [surf]
Cecilia - Strip [xquisite releases]
Bride - SHAMANIC RUPTURE [Psychic Liberation]
Hard Fantasy - Trifex [SODAA]
Avbvrn - Taste of Metal [ANBA]
Alley Catss - Vomit Vortex [Quantum Natives]
MJames - Age of Decline [low income $quad]
XI-N - Eclipse [Amek Collective]
Aeondelit - Anima Minima [Sadan]
Wesqk Coast - God damn black metal head [Rest Now!]
Touch - Success
Apkvp - Reveille [IA]
OhSeven - Digital Coronation [1000000]
Alto Arc - Nocebo
Damos Room x LYAM - EIN [Accidental Jnr’s]
Assyouti - Shakhrama [High Digital]
DJ angst - I can’t see [Angst Tapes]
Mice - Upwelling 上涌
Lovozero + Monekeer - Laugh
TKB - CS92 [Where to now]
Atrice - Digital Lilies [Miras]
Arleta - DrinkMe
Altstadt Echo - A muted radiance II [Semantica records]
SMPL SMPL - Subterfuge Remix [brokntoys]
N - STASIS DEMON [Renraku]
Ursula Sereghy - ClockHunt [Gin&Platonic]
Xin - Aedes Splatter [Subtext Recordings]

BLANK #15 - "CARESSE MA CARCASSE" BY JOANNA OJ

“How to tell a story about being from a place you don't come from? The lives of both my grandmothers were marked by moving to the other end of their world. And this is how I was born in Warmia. A place that has repeatedly uprooted its history. From the Prussians to Warmians, Germans, and Jews, to the forced resettlement of Ruthenians and Ukrainians in the Vistula operation and repatriation of the Kresowiaks...” – Zosia Hołubowska 

“Singing Warmia” is an attempt to deal with the lack of family archives and the inability to establish a relationship with the place of birth. 

Instead of family stories, the album's material is photos of the artist's favorite places around Olsztyn (capital city of Warmia region), which were sonified using processes designed by the artists. Zosia Hołubowska follows Saidiya Hartman's critical fabulation, that is, the transformation of history that counters the violence of historical representations and archives. Singing Warmia expresses both the pain of exile and the gloomy beauty of the abandoned landscape: the slow current of the river grazed by tree branches. 

This process concerns the landscape, or rather the soundscape inviting the voices of the spirits that inhabit it. The bends of the Łyna become the signals controlling the synthesizers. The arrangement of tree branches is translated into a melody, and the splashes of light on the waves of the river constitute a harmonic spectrum of sounds resembling the whispers and wailing of phantoms. This piece is another example of creative work with archives, following the "undoing" approach, which means deconstructing, collage reassembling, and animating the elements to reinterpret the performative and magical potential of the material. 

The album is a rework of the 5 speaker concert commissioned by Canti Spazalizzati.

written, composed, and mixed by Zosia Hołubowska @zosia-ho-ubowska
mastered by Roland Nagy 
artwork by Peter Mazur 
font: HIDE productions

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This month’s Amulet of Tears mix comes from Finnish producer Romance Relic with distinguishable palette of ingressive lines & steady scrapes riding over subdued frequencies and distorted sounds.

The nettle fades into a chant, receding to the surface where the sounds gather and dissipate on awakening, on a lingering trail, shrouded in half-lit, surreptitiously out of its grasp.

Amulet of Tears 036: Romance Relic

Music: @romancerelic

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 036: Romance Relic

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Arson is a sound-focused project aiming to question the artists’ internalized patterns through sound and performance. Reflecting on behavioral and sonic artifacts garnered from living in Berlin’s club-focused environment, it aims to provide an extended-self entity from which Arson can reflect on its role and identity from an external point of view. 

This first recorded set unfolds as a journey through layering influences going from grime to power ambient and from noise to bass music, shaping a rich landscape alternatively filled with brutal impacts or ethereal melodies.

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Miserable Electronics.

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